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Necessary Art: Amaury
Pacheco Speaks to Us About
His Post-OMNI Experience
Yania Suárez
Writer
Havana, Cuba

Q: When do you start to create Necessary Art?

A

: Necessary Art is a recent name
within my artistic trajectory. The
first hints of this singular art practice
emerged when I was active with OMNI,
since 2009, but really at the end of that
year. It wasn’t called that because we
were in other circumstances and
involved with other tendencies for which
to talk about our art: Total Art,

Performance, Poetic Action, Life Art.
We were focused on social life, on
interacting with public spaces, on
solving the conflicts and discovering the
zones of silence generated at the level of
social life in society. What I was able to
see was that we supported each other on
three, principal points: the poetic, the
social, and need. For example, we did a

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